"Let's go down and play on your father's lumber piles to-day," said
Danny Rugg to Bert, when school was out in the afternoon.
"Yes, we had a dandy time the other day!" chimed in Charley Mason.
"Let's go again."
"All right, we'll go!" agreed Bert.
But when he and the two boys reached the yard where the sweet-smelling
boards were piled in great heaps, Bert saw his father coming from the
office.
"May we play on the lumber?" asked Bert.
"Yes, but come home early," Mr. Bobbsey answered. "I'm going home now,
Bert, and I think you'd better come soon."
"Is anything the matter?" asked the boy, for he knew it was early for
his father to leave his office unless something had happened.
"Nothing serious," was the answer. "But I have just had some strange
news from the West, and I want to tell your mother about it. The news
came in a letter, and it may make a big change in our plans for the
summer."
CHAPTER VI
AUNT EMELINE
When Bert Bobbsey reached home that afternoon, having stopped his play
on the lumber piles with Charley and Danny earlier than usual, the
small boy saw his father and mother talking together on the side
porch.
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